Origin
Open career →Tennis’s living graph
Bridges Across
Eras
Two players do not need to have shared a court for their stories to be connected. Find the shortest chain of head-to-head meetings between them.
Shortest path found
Pete Sampras
reaches
Suehiro Ito
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 11 meetings92January 2, 1989 — August 26, 1996View Pete Sampras × Alexander Volkov →02 BridgeOpen career →Alexander Volkov
1 meeting10October 18, 1988View Alexander Volkov × Joel Bailey →03 BridgeOpen career →Joel Bailey
1 meeting10October 22, 1979View Joel Bailey × Suehiro Ito →04 DestinationOpen career →Suehiro Ito
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKevin Curren
- BridgeJoel Bailey
- DestinationSuehiro Ito
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- BridgeJoel Bailey
- DestinationSuehiro Ito
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTim Wilkison
- BridgeJoel Bailey
- DestinationSuehiro Ito
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndres Gomez
- BridgeJoel Bailey
- DestinationSuehiro Ito
How we calculate it
A search from both sides of history.
The portal traverses the head-to-head graph from both careers at the same time and stops at the first proven minimum distance. When a period is selected, only matches inside that window create links; walkovers never create connections.
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